TEXAS DSHS v. CROWN DISTRIBUTING LLC

No. 21-1045.

647 S.W.3d 648 (2022)

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES; John Hellerstedt, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Texas DSHS, Appellants, v. CROWN DISTRIBUTING LLC; America Juice Co., LLC; Custom Botanical Dispensary, LLC; 1937 Apothecary, LLC, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: June 24, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chelsie Spencer , Dallas, Paul Stevenson , Shane A. Pennington , Matthew Zorn , Houston, Constance H. Pfeiffer , for Appellees Crown Distributing LLC, America Juice Co., LLC.

Judd E. Stone II , Kyle Highful , Bill Davis , Charles K. Eldred , Austin, Brent Webster , Houston, Atty. Gen. W. Kenneth Paxton Jr. , Benjamin Walton , for Appellant Hellerstedt, John.

Victoria Clark , Wesley Hottot , for Amicus Curiae Institute for Justice.

Benjamin Walton , Kyle Highful , Christopher Galiardo , Charles K. Eldred , Austin, Brent Webster , Houston, Bill Davis , Austin, Judd E. Stone II , Atty. Gen. W. Kenneth Paxton Jr. , for Appellant Texas Department of State Health Services.

Susan Lea Hays , for Appellees 1937 Apothecary, LLC, Custom Botanical Dispensary, LLC.


The Texas Constitution guarantees that "[n]o citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land." TEX. CONST. art. I, § 19. The plaintiffs in this case assert that this guarantee...

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